A Gainesville woman was arrested Tuesday after she allegedly hit her estranged husband, took his cellphone and backed her vehicle into his truck in the parking lot of West Coast Seafood.
According to a Gainesville Police Department arrest report, Lashun Fayson, 42, met Ray Fayson at the grocery store’s parking lot, 510 NE Waldo Road, so she could return his Nissan Titan truck.
The Faysons — who are in the process of getting divorced — had switched vehicles so Lashun Fayson could use the truck to move, said Katrina Alston, Ray Fayson’s girlfriend who saw the incident.
During the exchange, Lashun Fayson became irate at her husband because she was jealous, Alston said.
“Just the fact that he’s with me – that’s it. That’s the only thing she could be upset about,” Alston said.
Lashun Fayson handed him gas money but then snatched it back, Alston said.
She slapped him in the face, according to the report, and shoved his chest where his pacemaker was located.
Lashun Fayson had already given a set of truck keys back to her husband, Alston said, but she refused to return the spare keys.
According to the report, she unlocked the truck and took her husband’s cellphone, valued at $200, from the cab of the truck and refused to give it back.
She also “tried to set his clothes on fire in the back of the truck,” Alston said.
Then, Lashun Fayson climbed into her Grand Marquis and backed it toward Ray Fayson, Alston said.
Instead, she hit his truck, and caused possible damage to the wheel, according to the report.
“If he wouldn’t have moved, she would have ran him right over,” Alston said. “I’m standing there, looking like, ‘Are you serious?’”
Lashun Fayson then drove out of the parking lot, Alston said.
About two hours later, police found Lashun Fayson the 400 block of Northwest Eighth Avenue and arrested her, according to the report.
She was booked into the Alachua County Jail on charges of criminal mischief and domestic battery.
As of press time, she had been released.
Contact Kelcee Griffis at kgriffis@alligator.org.
